CVE-2019-12689 Cisco Firepower Management Center Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
An authenticated remote attacker can execute arbitrary code on the underlying OS of Cisco Firepower Management Center via malicious commands sent to the web interface.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2019-12689?
CVE-2019-12689 is a high-severity command injection vulnerability in Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center, published on 2 Oct 2019. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
A vulnerability in the web-based management interface of Cisco Firepower Management Center (FMC) Software could allow an authenticated, remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the underlying operating system of an affected device. The vulnerability is due to insufficient input validation. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending malicious commands to the web-based management interface of an affected device. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to execute arbitrary code on the underlying operating system of the affected device.
Weakness: CWE-20
Which versions are affected by CVE-2019-12689?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center.
How do I fix CVE-2019-12689?
No fix has been published for CVE-2019-12689 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Upgrade, and pass arguments to programs as a list instead of through a shell. More about Command injection.
Is CVE-2019-12689 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2019-12689 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center
- CVE-2026-20079 Cisco Firewall Management Center Authentication Bypass Using an Alternate Path or Channel
- CVE-2026-20131 Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center (FMC) Software and Cisco Security Cloud Control (SCC) Firewall Management Deserialization of Untrusted Data
- CVE-2026-20316 Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center Use of Hard-coded Password
- CVE-2025-20265 Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center Software Radius Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
- CVE-2024-20424 Command injection in Cisco Firepower Management Center
Sources
Also known as GHSA-7p39-4wj4-xxhg.